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• vii • untitled • (unknown) • poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (variant of Identity 1919) [as by uncredited]
• xi • Preface (The World's Greatest Ghost Stories) • essay by Richard Dalby
• 1 • The Unsettled Dust • (1968) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 40 • How He Left the Hotel • (1894) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• 45 • Whessoe • (1928) • short story by Nugent Barker
• 55 • The Shuttered Room • (1929) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 68 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 72 • "Is There Anybody There?" • (1964) • short story by Charles Birkin
• 88 • The Whisperers • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 94 • Curfew • (1967) • short story by L. M. Boston
• 103 • "I'm Sure It Was No. 31" • (1955) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 108 • The Guide • (1989) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 120 • The Limping Ghost • (1975) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes (variant of The Ghost Who Limped)
• 136 • Mrs. Zant and the Ghost • (1885) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
• 169 • The House by the Tarn • (1971) • short story by Basil Copper
• 182 • In Kropfsberg Keep • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram [as by Ralph A. Cram]
• 191 • The Ghost in All the Rooms • (1727) • short story by Daniel Defoe
• 200 • The Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Bagman's Uncle)
• 217 • The Bully of Brocas Court • (1921) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 229 • In the Confessional • (1871) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 244 • The Tune in Dan's Café • (1967) • short story by Shamus Frazer
• 254 • Beyond the Bourne • (1990) • short story by John S. Glasby
• 267 • The Valley of Lost Children • (1906) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 278 • The Sand-Walker • (1906) • short story by Fergus Hume
• 293 • The Real Right Thing • (1892) • short story by Henry James
• 306 • The Haunted Dolls' House • (1923) • short story by M. R. James
• 317 • The Wall-Painting • (1983) • short story by Roger Johnson
• 331 • "They" • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 352 • The Last Laugh • (1925) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 369 • Robin's Rath • (1923) • novelette by Margery Lawrence (variant of February: The Poet's Story: Robin's Rath)
• 387 • The Dream • [The Purcell Papers • 3] • (1894) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The Drunkard's Dream 1838) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 399 • The Sundial • (1943) • short story by R. H. Malden
• 409 • The Fifteenth Man • (1900) • short story by Richard Marsh (variant of The Fifteenth Man: The Story of a Rugby Match)
• 420 • Brenner's Boy • (1932) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 436 • Uncle Abraham's Romance • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 440 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 452 • The Next Room • (1928) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 461 • The Footstep of the Aventine • (1923) • short story by Roger Pater
• 472 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 491 • Courage • (1918) • short story by Forrest Reid
• 498 • The Last of Squire Ennismore • (1888) • short story by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
• 505 • The Garside Fell Disaster • (1948) • short story by L. T. C. Rolt
• 513 • The Tears of Saint Agathé • [Father O'Connor] • (1983) • short story by David G. Rowlands
• 524 • The Soul of Laploshka • (1910) • short story by Saki